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Title: Let Me Die in Ireland, the True Story of Patrick by David W. Bercot, Publishing Scroll Company ISBN: 0-924722-08-8 Publisher: Scroll Pub Co Pub. Date: 06 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Saint Patrick is a Catholic!!!
Comment: I read this book and it has great detail but lies with a Protestant zeal. The author tries to claim that Patrick is not Catholic because he is a protestant who wants to claim Patrick as one of his own, but is totally ficticious. He tries to state that Saint Patrick did not use the shamrock to explain the trinity, was not Catholic, and is not a saint. These revolts against the Catholic Church did not begin until after 200 years after Patrick died. All Churches back then were Catholic and it is sad that they broke off when the Church needed reforming not a split.
God Bless and Always in Christ J.M.J.,
Joy Marie Murphy
Rating: 3
Summary: How true is true
Comment: The basis for this book is the few pages (a short life story and two letters) written by Patrick himself. This then is embellished into a fictional account, using contemporary sources for the details. It reads somewhat like a Paul Coelho fable, was pleasant enough, and is clearly written as a Christian teaching story (with digs at Roman Catholicism in the afterword) by someone with some insight into the early Christian world. Sadly it didn't give me what I was looking for ... setting the story of Croagh Patrick in context. The mountain, including the story of ridding the country of serpents by the 40 days and nights on the top of it, doesn't get a mention. I do believe a real part of Patrick's life was a mission to counter pagan ways, and believe he would have 'baptised' this mountain already sacred to the god Lughna, making it Christian ... also that he would have followed Biblical examples. Millions of others believe something similar. From the way this book sells itself, one expects the full true story ... it isn't that. Don't expect anything complete or authoritative. It is a pleasant but partial fable.
Rating: 5
Summary: Truly Amazing
Comment: This book is great; an incredibly provocative tale about an unassuming. I was astonished to learn the truth about his life.
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Title: Confession of Saint Patrick by John Skinner ISBN: 0385491638 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 17 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Life of St. Patrick and His Place in History by John B. Bury ISBN: 0486400379 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 08 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Patrick : The Pilgrim Apostle of Ireland by Maire B. de Paor ISBN: 0060009020 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 22 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Transforming Moment by James E. Loder ISBN: 0939443171 Publisher: Helmers & Howard Pub Pub. Date: November, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Who was Saint Patrick? by E.A. Thompson ISBN: 0851157173 Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Pub. Date: 20 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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